# Tell us one thing about yourself
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 14, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690 "2012-10-14T13:57:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 8
### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2012, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/141 "2012-10-17T08:11:39Z")
The first time I ever appeared on national television, you couldn’t see me at all. I was a puppeteer.
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### Author:  [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2012, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/142 "2012-10-17T09:23:08Z")
I sat next to Nile Rodgers on my last transatlantic flight, founder of Chic and producer for Diana Ross, David Bowie and Madonna.
Cool dreads, man, but also terminal cancer. The things people share just for being sat next to each other…
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile\_Rodgers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Rodgers)
Oh, here is where he was heading for…
[ ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NileRodgersEdinburghBookFest2012.png)
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### Author:  [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2012, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/143 "2012-10-17T10:33:20Z")
[QUOTE=Scribble]
I’m not very interesting.
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[QUOTE=Nerdessence]
In my thirty-three years of life, I have never consumed even one alcoholic beverage.
(My list of “never haves” is a mile long, but I’m only allowed to share one. )
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> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> You two should really hook up. 😃
Except that I drink alcoholic beverages.
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### Author:  [@supergirl123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supergirl123)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2012, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/144 "2012-10-17T11:17:19Z")
Men hit on me in planes.
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### Author:  [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2012, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/145 "2012-10-17T12:31:11Z")
My name is in space.
In the 1990’s, NASA invited people to submit their names to be engraved on several microchips that were then attached to the [Stardust](http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/microchip/index.html) spacecraft, which was to sample dust from the tail of a comet and then send those samples back to earth. I and 1.3 million of my close friends submitted our names, which were then launched in 1999. One set of chips returned to earth in 2004 with those samples, but the other set will remain out there forever. It’s not as cool as being one of the engineers who designed the Voyager spacecraft, but it’s still pretty cool knowing that I have personally affected something millions of miles away.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/146 "2012-10-17T13:07:36Z")
I recently became good friends with a homeless person. I hate that she’s homeless. So does she. We’re going on a picnic tomorrow.
I should probably help her find a job.
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/147 "2012-10-17T13:14:13Z")
> [@Scribble](#):
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> I’m not very interesting.
hmmm… I’d like to hear more about this.
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### Author:  [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/148 "2012-10-17T13:31:47Z")
I am a Mayflower descendant on my mother’s side, but neither she nor my grandmother knew this.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2012, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/149 "2012-10-17T13:36:10Z")
> [@Scribble](#):
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> I’m not very interesting.
That’s fascinating.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/150 "2012-10-17T13:40:18Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#):
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> My name is in space.
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> In the 1990’s, NASA invited people to submit their names to be engraved on several microchips that were then attached to the [Stardust](http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/microchip/index.html) spacecraft…
Hey, me too, but on one of the Mars rovers, through a Planetary Society offer.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/151 "2012-10-17T13:53:24Z")
I have one song memorized on the piano and it is “Linus and Lucy”, aka the Charlie Brown theme.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/152 "2012-10-17T14:03:44Z")
At one of the jobs I’ve had, while I was working, a receptionist opened an envelope filled with white powder…
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### Author:  [@applebetty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/applebetty)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/153 "2012-10-17T23:30:15Z")
I don’t want to tell you one thing about myself.
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### Author:  [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/154 "2012-10-18T00:06:42Z")
I had a potentially fatal pheocromacytoma and lived to tell about it.
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/155 "2012-10-18T00:36:49Z")
I’m very tired.
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### Author:  [@Crab\_Rangoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crab_Rangoon)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/156 "2012-10-18T00:49:43Z")
I’ve held a baby loon in my lap - I was helping to band loons for a night. Very fuzzy, very cute. Mother had a very sharp bill.
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### Author:  [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/157 "2012-10-18T02:06:11Z")
I can’t seem to post anything while I’m on my meds. I just lurk mostly. Everytime I try to post something, a voice in my head tells me not to do it.
LOL!
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/158 "2012-10-18T02:43:56Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#):
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> I can’t seem to post anything while I’m on my meds. I just lurk mostly. Everytime I try to post something, a voice in my head tells me not to do it.
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> LOL!
Which leads to the question: Why are you so often off your meds?
:-p /joking
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/159 "2012-10-18T02:51:02Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#):
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> Why are you so often off your meds?
(not joking)
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-one-thing-about-yourself/637690/160 "2012-10-18T04:53:53Z")
I’m not on any meds right now, and haven’t been for years.
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